Sentences with phrase «of snow geese»

Large numbers of snow geese, varying each year from 15,000 to more than 300,000 birds, feed on the Arctic Refuge coastal tundra for three to four weeks each fall, on their way from nesting grounds on Banks Island in Canada to wintering grounds primarily in California's Central Valley.

But now they find themselves onshore just as vast flocks of snow geese are nesting, providing an abundant supply of eggs and birds.

His first book, The Snow Geese, was published in 2002, and follows the migration of the snow geese from Texas to Baffin Island.

The only population of snow geese in all of Asia breeds on Wrangel island.

Not exact matches

as he follows the tracks of the skunk in the January snow; wondering where the skunk is beading and why; speculating on the different meanings of a winter thaw for the mouse whose snow burrow has collapsed and the owl who has just made dinner on the mouse; trying to understand the honking of the geese as they circle the pond; and wondering what the world must look like to a muskrat eye - deep in the swamp.

Estimated 10,000 snow geese and sprinkling of honkers now in Salton Sea region, and Canadas are beginning to move into lower Colorado River sand bars and grain fields.

Usual heavy concentrations of white fronted geese reported, but blues and snows are crowding them out of feed and water, suggesting need for more lenient limits on these species.

Because of these delays, the brant arrive about 1 - 2 weeks after lesser snow geese and cackling geese causing them to miss out on prime nesting real estate.

Snowpack is at 6 percent of normal for this time of year with the southern and central Sierra Nevada mountains registering a goose egg in terms of snow on the ground.

Mary - Louise Parker will star in the world premiere of the play «The Snow Geese.»

The steering is a little heavier than usual, but when you goose the gas, the G - wagen feels like it would rip off a respectable 0 - to -60-mph time even while spraying a wave of snow off the plow.

A painting should make you feel like a child seeing his first sunset snow fall migration of geese

She's co-authored a recent paper — «The early bear gets the goose: climate change, polar bears and lesser snow geese in western Hudson Bay» — showing that bears in that region are foraging increasingly on shore, eating grasses and particularly relishing (apparently) snow geese and their eggs [UPDATE: Ms. Gormezano described grass (and kelp) foraging in my Science Times story but that's not in the paper; her co-author properly rejected the use of the word «relished»].

Snow geese feed on small patches of vegetation that are widely distributed across the Refuge's coastal tundra, so a large area is necessary to meet their needs.

Trophic matches and mismatches: Can polar bears reduce the abundance of nesting snow geese in western Hudson Bay?

For geese, to prevent a repeat of the December 7, 2011 massacre of numerous snow geese by wind turbines along upstate New York Route 190, as reported by a motorist?

Across a 10 - day period of observation, we documented between four and six individual polar bears successfully capture at least nine flightless lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) and engage in at least eight high - speed pursuits of geese.